DelVal Turners
DelVal Turners

                           "Unus bonum rursus dignus alium"

May 2024 Newsletter


This is a bonus meeting, we will still have our face-to face meeting in May.

This meeting is free for all DelVal and FSW members! 

 

Announcing our May remote interactive demonstration via zoom

Turn a Personalized Figure
by
Kai Muenzer

 

Wednesday May 8, 2024
7:00 pm Eastern Time start
doors open at 6:30 pm
 

Announcing our May remote interactive demonstration via zoom

Turn a Personalized Figure
by
Kai Muenzer


 

Delval Turners is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Kai Muenzer Demo
Time: May 8, 2024 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83867027724?pwd=SFRFVUNYVW5wVnBiNzUwSGtqQzc0UT09

Meeting ID: 838 6702 7724
Passcode: 001299

 

SPRING CHALLENGE
 

Create a weedpot using at least 50% wood. There are no other rules.

Pieces are due at our June meeting (6/11/24).

Some examples from the web are below.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

 


5/8 WEDNESDAY: Kai Muenzer will demonstrate for us via an interactive demo IRD, on zoom at 7pm. More information will be available in May. 

5/14 TUESDAY: Regular meeting at MFS at 7pm.

6/11 TUESDAY: Regular meeting at MFS at 7pm. We will judge the spring challenge pieces.

6/12 WEDNESDAY: Carl Jacobson will demonstrate for us via an interactive demo IRD, on zoom at 7pm. He will show us all the various products from Ruth Niles line.

SUMMER BBQ: Date TBD

 

Join or Renew Membership at DelVal Turners 
2024 forms are available by clicking the link below

Slideshow - Wood turned objects

DelVal Turners' Club Officers

 

Scott L Malin, President

Paul Bracciante, Exec VP

Scott L Malin, Treasurer

Michael Zickler, VP Secretary

Dave Leader, Webmaster

David A Potts, VP Membership

Philip Hauser, VP HOW's

John Dighton, Program Director

Dwight McCleery Officer

Jeff Schnell, Safety Director

Marty Richter, Immediate Past President, Liaison

 

  

MEETINGS:

DelVal Turners meets either in-person at the Morestown Friends School or virtually using Zoom on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Meeting topics include show and tells, demonstrations, and discussions on various turning related subjects, such as tool sharpening, sanding, finishing, chucks, jigs, marketing your crafts etc. New members are encouraged to contribute new ideas to help create an interesting and challenging program. Our demonstrations are most often given by nationally and internationally renowned turners and artists.

 

MEETING TIME AND PLACE:

Our remote/Zoom meetings start at 6:30 PM with a social 30 minutes.  The meeting starts at 7PM.  We are planning for more face to face meetings to take place at the Morrestown Friends School.  

 

OTHER EVENTS: Philip Hauser runs a great hands on open house at his workshop on the  3rd Tuesday of each month. The open house is an informal setting where members discuss different issues such as tool use, tool sharpening,  wood preparation, and turning techniques. Phil and other members often demonstrate these techniques. See Member's Area for Phil's contact information.  

 

FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES:

A 50/50 raffle is conducted during most meetings to augment the club’s finances. 

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:

The club invites some of the best woodturners in the world to demonstrate at our club meetings and via Zoom remote sessions.   Woodturners freely share their skills with all, thus providing novice to expert turners with a wealth of information. 

 

OTHER BENEFITS:

The club will often offer information about wood that has become available and tools for sale. We also inform members of different woodturning events in the area and upcoming symposiums. 

 

MEMBERSHIP AND DUES:

Membership is open to all interested in woodturning. Annual dues are $ 25.00 per person. Dues are valid  for the  calendar year starting January 1st.  Dues for the half year of July to December are $12.50 per person. 

 

Members are strongly  encouraged to join the American Association of Woodturners. It publishes a great quarterly magazine about woodturning and an annual directory of members and resources and it organizes annual symposiums. The AAW offers liability insurance for all club organized activities to AAW members.  Click here for Membership

 

Become a member

 

More information about our HOW  (Hands On Workshops)  program